> As someone who has 31 hours towards their single-engine ppl cert,
FFS, have some self-awareness! This is the Dunning-Kruger Effect in practice.
I don't see how having a marginal amount of single-engine aviation flight experience is relevant to Dunning-Kruger.
If anything, it's taught me how little I know about "real flying" compared to CFD and systems engineering.
Commercial aviation is conservative because aviation is "hard" and mistakes in aviation are "extremely costly".
No because they used that point to say they have sympathy for the idea of innovating aircraft.
They are not saying "hold my beer while I put the industry to rights!"